Information about 'Chips Voting'

If the IPM/administrator wants to experiment with a different voting scheme, Brightidea offers a chips voting option!

This feature will allow the IPM/Administrator to:

Set the number of votes/chips per person

Set the maximum number of votes (or chips) per idea

Set a series of idea statuses where chips are returned.

Therefore, if you gave two chips to an idea - and then it is "approved" - you can get those chips back.

Getting Started:

Chips Voting is found on the WebStorm level under WebStormSetup --> Ideas --> Voting

Warning: If an administrator changes a WebStorm from a default up and down voting to chips voting - it will reset all votes in that WebStorm to zero. Please try to set chips voting at the start of a new WebStorm, or understand that prior votes for that WebStorm will be lost.

Please note that with Chips voting enabled, it will not show who voted in normal voting scheme.

With Chips Voting enabled, the admin will need to add the "My Voting Chips Widget" to your page(s) from the widget drop-down menu.

This widget allows the user to keep track of their chips being dealt out.

The widget contains a counter of outstanding votes, and allows the user to recall all the dealt out "chips" (Return all of my votes) so the user can re-vote on any idea they wish.

Using Chips Voting

When Chips voting is enabled - it will allow all users to place chips on all or any ideas.

If limit is set - the system will prompt the user on the maximum amount he/she can delegate.

The user is able to edit their chip allotment at any time post voting using the "Edit Chips" feature on the vote count.

Important things to Note:

Please download the "Download All Ideas" report to show how many chips each idea has been allotted. This will only work on the WebStorm level.

Chips cannot be shared across WebStorms, they are only contained within one WebStorm only.

At this time, chips are associated with ideas, not users - so there is not an out of box report to relate chips to users - please speak to your Brightidea representative if you have questions or concerns with this.

To explain the relationship between chips voting and reputation points - please refer to this article

To explain the relationship between chips voting and "Votes of Support"/ "Total Points" metrics - refer to this article.